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   Welcome to Jackie's Web Page!

    The purpose of this page is to keep family and friends informed of my progress in "Climbing the Family Tree" 

In 1976 I became interested in the hobby of Genealogy and began to search for my Ancestors.  This was before the "Web" as we know it today and easy access to numerous records right from your own living room, or dinning room in my case.   I traveled with my Mother to Kentucky and Illinois to meet relatives that I did not know and I wish I had been more persistent and attentive then, because now most of them are gone and with them knowledge that can never be retrieved.

 I spent hours, even days in microfilm rooms at libraries and archives scanning film and perusing history and genealogy books , wrote hundreds of letters, visited many grave sites and my Tree began to grow.   However, as my son Alex got older and I had less and less time to spend on my project, I put it aside and now 23 years later I am “hooked” again!

 I will post here bits and pieces from then and now in order to share the progress I am making.   

 Keep in mind while you explore these pages that mistakes are often made in genealogy, so if you see something here you feel is in error, or if you think we are "cousins" please be sure to contact me.  I will be glad to exchange any information I have with anyone finding a connection. 

Please sign my Guestbook before you leave and remember to  use your back browser to find you way back to this page.  Thanks for coming by and  ....

  Happy Browsing!

 

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN ADDICTED GENEALOGIST

...when you brake for libraries.
...if you get locked in a library overnight and you never even notice.
...when you hyperventilate at the sight of an old cemetery.
...if you'd rather browse in a cemetery than a shopping mall.
...when you think every home should have a microfilm reader.
...if you'd rather read census schedules than a good book.
...when you know every town clerk in your state by name.
...if town clerks lock the doors when they see you coming.
...when you're more interested in what happened in 1697 than 1997.
...if you store your clothes under the bed and your closet is carefully stacked with notebooks and journals.
...if you can pinpoint Harrietsham, Hawkhurst, and Kent on a map of England, but can't locate Topeka, Kansas.
...when all your correspondence begins, "Dear Cousin,"
...if you've traced every one of your ancestral lines back to Adam and Eve, have it all fully documented, and still don't want to quit.

Surnames

My Direct Line

My Collateral Line

Ashby	Ashworth	Barnard	Baumann	Beasley	Benson	Blossom
Bours	Bratcher	Bryant	Burns	Calvert	Campbell	Carico
Carter	Cates	Clarkson	Clouser	Coats	Coffey	Colp
Copeland	Cormier	Cox	Crain	Curtis	Davenport	Dewitt
Dillinger	Donally	Duvall	Ecoppi	Edwards	Eledge	Evans
Farmer	Fleenor	Fozzard	Franklin	Fuller	Gaithright	Garvin
Gibbs	Goforth	Gossage	Graves	Gray	Hamm	Hogg
Hought	Hughes	Hunt	Keeton	Kevil	Keys	Keifer
King	Kirtley	Knott	Kolas	Ledbetter	Lee	Lewis
Lowe	Maitland	Mann	Mannering	Martin	Meadow	Miller
Mitchell	Norris	North	O'Bannon	Owenby	Painter	Palmer
Pardieck	Parker	Parsley	Partridge	Persons	Porritt	Rackley
Reiger	Render	Rhule	Rich	Richardson	Robinson	Rolls
Rowe	Sevy	Shelton	Stevens	Stocks	Stotlar	Sullivan
Taylor	Thompson	Turley	Van Dial	Vaughn	Waldron	Walker
Ware	White	Whitecotten	Williams	Willingham	Winters	Wiskiniski
Wittkoetter	Wright	Wyche	Yates	~	~	~

Is that Lineage Right?

Your evidence is only as good as the source from which it came!   

Some Do's and Don'ts

• Use primary sources when available.    

• Use secondary sources only as clues.       

• Don't trust your memory, take notes.

• Don't write up traditions as facts unless you can prove them.

• Do keep exact references of everything you copy.  Document your sources.

• Don't believe all that is printed.

• Make sure your direct line includes lineal and not collateral ancestors. 

• Compute the dates between one generation and another to insure the probability of descent.

• Don't depend on the findings of others, make the search yourself.  (Mistakes have been copied and recopied by those who did not check original records.)

• Do write you Family History and place it in some suitable depository.

• Don't wait until you have traced every line, that time may not come and your work will be lost to Posterity.

• Be Patient.

• Verify, Verify, Verify

• Most of all Have Fun!

 

This page is dedicated to the memory of my Aunt Capitola Dell Snyder Kolas

 who helped me get started  on this quest by providing me with her personal knowledge 

of the family history as well as gathering information for me from others in the family.  

 She was very proud of her heritage.

 

    

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      This page last updated on  04/28/00  

           

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